{"product_id":"my-animal-life-maggie-gee-9781846599873","title":"My Animal Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive--I really loved it.\"--Zadie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maggie Gee's account of her life as a writer cuts to the bone as she relives triumphs, rejections, despair and renewal. It's a wonderful book, for its boldness and vigour, and for its piercing honesty.\"--Claire Tomalin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you become a writer, and why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie Gee's journey starts in a small family in post-war Britain, a long way from the literary world. At seventeen, Maggie goes, a lamb to the slaughter, to university. From the 1960s onwards she lives the defining events of her generation: the coming of the Pill and sexual freedom, tremors in the British layer-cake of class and race. In the 1980s, Maggie finally gets published, falls in love, marries, and has a daughter--but for the next three decades and beyond, she survives, and sometimes thrives, by writing. This frank, bold memoir dares to explore the big questions: success and failure, sex, death, and parenthood--our animal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaggie Gee\u003c\/b\u003e was chosen as one of Granta's original Best Young British Novelists. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including \u003ci\u003eThe White Family\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes; \u003ci\u003eMy Cleaner\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Flood\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the Orange Prize; and \u003ci\u003eThe Ice People\u003c\/i\u003e. She was the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature from 2004-2008 and is now one of its vice presidents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maggie Gee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1846599873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846599873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Telegram Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Maggie Gee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48450026733823,"sku":"9781846599873","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f03195d-7d04-4677-9273-f85dc564e726.jpg?v=1777265912","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-animal-life-maggie-gee-9781846599873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}